10 reasons to love and hate Starbucks

Starbucks. You either love it, you hate it, you need it, or you wouldn’t be caught dead there. People don’t have a lot of neutral comments to make about the Seattle coffee retailer, as seriouseats.com just demonstrate with two lists of opposites.

Among the reasons to love: Starbucks gave us coffee language — or shamed us into it, depending on who you ask — turned the masses into espresso junkies and offers travelers a constant presence all over the world.

Among the reasons to hate Starbucks: It’s making us fatter, turned espresso drinks into fast food and gave us its own coffee language. (Hey, weren’t we just told that was a good thing?)